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Mind Reading Decoder

09.11.2014

A team of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley demonstrated their achievements in this direction, being able to decode and read the thoughts of an outsider. The technology being developed should allow people who have lost the ability to talk due to illness or injury to restore the ability to practically complete verbal communication.

The project was based on the results of tests in which it was found that certain neurons in the human nervous system are active in response to appropriate sounds. Taking into account the statistics available to scientists, Californian specialists modeled an algorithm for decoding neural signals for their subsequent conversion into information.

The system, which it was decided to call the decoder, was tested on several volunteers. First, they read aloud, and the device took the necessary readings and checked the activity of neurons. Then the same text was "spoken out" mentally, and the decoder picked up signals that would allow it to reproduce the words scrolling in the volunteers' heads.

So far, the invention of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley is under development and is unlikely to become available in the foreseeable future. It is worth noting that it is very far from perfect, but the authors of the project are ready to work and upgrade the device to achieve more stable performance.

In parallel with the decoder, another interesting development is being implemented, which will be able to recognize the perception of certain sounds by a person. Simply put, volunteers will listen to musical compositions (Pink Floyd was chosen as an example), and then the system will determine, by the reaction of neurons, which composition they hear.

The implementation of the presented ideas became real due to the fact that the so-called key for deciphering neural signals remains unchanged regardless of whether a person pronounces his thought in a verbal way or keeps it to himself without public voicing.

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